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[-] Trashcan@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure the artist intended to be smart and use metric time as something silly.

The problem is he used regular time.

60 * 60 * 24=86400=>86.4 kseconds where k stands for 1000. Like kilo for 1000 grams. Kilometer for 1000 meters etc.

The comic doesn't make sense...

[-] zaphod@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, it's correct, metric time is just using seconds for everything, you end up with minutes, hours, days,... as auxiliary units. And then there's decimal time, which tries to divide the day into 10 hours, the French tried to introduce that during the revolution.

[-] lugal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Are you talking about SI unites? I mean, sure, there is overlap but the metric system is what people use in everyday life and SI is a scientific system where you don't even use prefixes (like kilo) but just powers of 10. In no case to people use kiloseconds

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

The SI system is a metric system and also defines the use of the words describing powers of ten. The use of kiloseconds also isn't wrong, it just means 1000 seconds, obviously. But it only makes sense in context (for example short lived isotopes).

The same way "Megameter" is formally correct but no one uses it because there is rarely a context where this was useful.

[-] lugal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I bet there is are least one or two kilo people who use it unironically.

Jokes aside, there is a different between a metric system and the metric system, and also between not wrong and right but at this point I'm just nitpicking that people shouldn't be so nitpicky. Don't take me serious.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah... That 10 hours thing made some heads spin....to the floor that's it.

[-] WallEx@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

That ... Is metric time. The si unit for time is seconds. So ...

[-] Trashcan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There's loads of comments mentioning this site https://metric-time.com/

Thats brukt beyond kiloseconds and into something else entirely

[-] bi_tux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

seconds, minutes, hours are usable units, days aren't

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